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Theory of International Politics

01 Jan 1979-
About: The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7932 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Global politics & International relations.
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TL;DR: The authors argues that the study of international relations is secularized due to the secularizing character of its founding event, the Peace of Westphalia, and that today, religion has entered back into the actual conduct of the international relations.
Abstract: This essay argues that the study of international relations is secularized due to the secularizing character of its founding event, the Peace of Westphalia. But today, religion has entered back into the actual conduct of international relations, thereby calling for an accommodating revision of international relations theory.

152 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an event-history analysis of ratification of seven key international human rights treaties in 164 countries in the period between 1965 and 2001, showing that normative pressure from international society, along with historical contingencies during the Cold War, encouraged many states to ratify these treaties.
Abstract: This research seeks to understand the factors that lead nation-states to ratify international human rights treaties in the contemporary world, despite their potential cost for state sovereignty. We argue that normative pressure from international society, along with historical contingencies during the Cold War, encouraged many states to ratify these treaties. We present an event-history analysis of ratification of seven key international human rights treaties in 164 countries in the period between 1965 and 2001. The results lend support to the world society argument as well as to our historical argument and also specify that normative pressure and imitation have been important factors shaping states’ decisions to ratify international human rights treaties.

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Dissertation
25 Mar 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of the salient features of a discussion of moral discuté in the context of the ReVUE of LittérATURE and CADRE THEORIQUE.
Abstract: ....................................................................................................................... III TABLE DES MATIÈRES .................................................................................................... V LISTE DES SIGLES ......................................................................................................... VII REMERCIEMENTS .......................................................................................................... IX INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 1 CHAPITRE I : REVUE DE LITTÉRATURE ET CADRE THEORIQUE ..................... 11 1. 1. REVUE DE LITTÉRATURE ............................................................................................. 14 1.1. 1. La lutte contre l’impunité : un impératif moral discuté ........................................ 14 1. 1. 2. Téléologique et utilitariste .............................................................................. 15 1. 1. 3. Fonctionnaliste et instrumentaliste ................................................................. 17 1. 1. 4. Culturaliste et historique ................................................................................ 23 1. 2. CADRE THÉORIQUE ..................................................................................................... 31 1. 2. 1. Dignité humaine et principe de dignité ............................................................... 31 1. 2. 2. Impératif moral hypothétique, impératif moral catégorique ................................ 38 1. 2. 3. Morale et éthique, déontologisme et conséquentialisme...................................... 42 1. 2. 4. Lutter contre l’impunité : une définition ............................................................. 49 1. 2. 5. La sanction et la morale ..................................................................................... 68 1. 2. 6. Lutter contre l’impunité : une idée consubstantielle du système international ..... 75 1. 2. 7. Lutter contre l’impunité : lutte morale et contractualisation socio-politique du principe de dignité ......................................................................................................... 81 1. 2. 8. Droit et morale, éthique, kantisme : une relation étroite ...................................... 95 1. 2. 9. Droit(s) : questions et enjeux théoriques ............................................................. 98 1. 2. 10. Le droit : du discours commun aux questions et enjeux théoriques ................. 100 1. 2. 11. Le droit : une question (de) politique et de domination ................................... 106 1. 2. 12. Le droit : une question d’attribution de signification objective et d’interprétation authentique .................................................................................................................. 109

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  • ...Il est construit afin de mettre fin au règne de la précarité de l’ordre international et afin de réguler les compétitions de la puissance entre les États (Carreau et Marrella 2018, 58; Waltz 2010; Aron 2004; Wheaton 1852)....

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TL;DR: Using a variety of measures and models, the authors show a clear connection between the partisan composition of Congress and the quarterly frequency of major uses of force between 1945 and 2000; they do not find any congressional influence, however, on minor use of force, and recommend that the quantitative use-of-force literature in international relations begin to take seriously theories of domestic political institutions, partisanship, and interbranch relations that have been developed within American politics.
Abstract: Scholars have long debated the relative influence of domestic and international factors on the presidential use of force. On one matter, however, consensus reigns: the U.S. Congress is presumed irrelevant. This presumption, we demonstrate, does not hold up to empirical scrutiny. Using a variety of measures and models, we show a clear connection between the partisan composition of Congress and the quarterly frequency of major uses of force between 1945 and 2000; we do not find any congressional influence, however, on minor uses of force. We recommend that the quantitative use-of-force literature in international relations begin to take seriously theories of domestic political institutions, partisanship, and interbranch relations that have been developed within American politics.We thank the Center for American Political Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for financial support; and Doug Kriner, Matthew Scherbarth, and Kevin Warnke for research assistance. David Canon, Matt Dickinson, Ben Fordham, David Lewis, and Alastair Smith provided helpful feedback. We also benefited from seminars at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, Harvard University, Ohio State University, and Emory University. Two anonymous reviewers provided excellent feedback. Standard disclaimers apply.

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TL;DR: This article examined the causes of war, shifting attention from interactions between nations to the consequences of changes in relative power and to the political evolution of the nation state itself, finding that specific changes in a state's relative capability dynamics increase its propensity to initiate extensive war.
Abstract: Relative nation-state capability follows a generalized nonlinear pattern over long periods. Empirical evidence indicates that between 1816–1975 nine major powers have traversed at least a segment of this relative capability cycle of political ascendancy, maturation and decline. Specific changes in a state's relative capability dynamics increase its propensity to initiate extensive war. Whether the extensiveness of a war is defined in terms of duration, intensity or magnitude, major powers are likely to initiate more extensive wars at the critical inflection and turning points on the curve of relative capability where the linear role perceptions held by government and society change pervasively. This analysis involves a new theoretical focus for examining the causes of war, shifting attention from interactions between nations to the consequences of changes in relative power and to the political evolution of the nation-state itself.

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01 Jan 1976
TL;DR: For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge, proven either by the power of the intellect or by the evidence of the senses as discussed by the authors. But the notion of proven knowledge was questioned by the sceptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
Abstract: For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge — proven either by the power of the intellect or by the evidence of the senses. Wisdom and intellectual integrity demanded that one must desist from unproven utterances and minimize, even in thought, the gap between speculation and established knowledge. The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the sceptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics. Einstein’s results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. But few realize that with this the whole classical structure of intellectual values falls in ruins and has to be replaced: one cannot simply water down the ideal of proven truth - as some logical empiricists do — to the ideal of’probable truth’1 or — as some sociologists of knowledge do — to ‘truth by [changing] consensus’.2

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17 Feb 1966
TL;DR: This book contains the collected and unified material necessary for the presentation of such branches of modern cybernetics as the theory of electronic digital computers, Theory of discrete automata, theory of discrete self-organizing systems, automation of thought processes, theoryof image recognition, etc.
Abstract: : This book contains the collected and unified material necessary for the presentation of such branches of modern cybernetics as the theory of electronic digital computers, theory of discrete automata, theory of discrete self-organizing systems, automation of thought processes, theory of image recognition, etc. Discussions are given of the fundamentals of the theory of boolean functions, algorithm theory, principles of the design of electronic digital computers and universal algorithmical languages, fundamentals of perceptron theory, some theoretical questions of the theory of self-organizing systems. Many fundamental results in mathematical logic and algorithm theory are presented in summary form, without detailed proofs, and in some cases without any proof. The book is intended for a broad audience of mathematicians and scientists of many specialties who wish to acquaint themselves with the problems of modern cybernetics.

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